Silke J. Forbes
Professor of Economics, Tufts University
Working Papers and Work in Progress
“Supply Shocks and Emissions When Firms Can Adapt”, joint with Yongjoon Park (UMass Amherst)
"Financial Aid Coordination and Student Debt" , joint with Ara Kharazian (Square)
“Do Horizontal Mergers Affect Vertical Relationships?”
“Quality Competition and Outsourcing of Regional Air Services”, with Anne Lange (University of Luxemburg) and Sascha Albers (University of Antwerp)
Publications
Does Competition Benefit Complements? Evidence from Hotels and Airlines, joint with Renata Kosova (Imperial College), Management Science 69(8), August 2023. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.4568
Doctor Switching Costs, joint with Gordon Dahl (UC San Diego), Journal of Public Economics 221, May 2023, 104858. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2023.104858
“The Effect of Accidents on Aircraft Manufacturers’ Competition”, with Wouter Dewulf and Yufei Li, in: The Air Transportation Industry: Economic Conflict and Competition, Elsevier, 2021.
“Do Airlines Pad Their Schedules?”, joint with Mara Lederman and Zhe Yuan, Review of Industrial Organization 54(1), February 2019, 61-82.
“Quality Disclosure When Firms Set Their Own Quality Targets”, joint with Mara Lederman and Michael Wither, International Journal of Industrial Organization 62, January 2019, 228-250.
“Quality Disclosure Programs and Internal Organizational Practices: Evidence from Airline Flight Delays”, joint with Mara Lederman and Trevor Tombe, American Economic Journal – Microeconomics 7(2), 1-26, May 2015 (Lead Article).
“Contract Form and Technology Adoption in a Network Industry,” joint with Mara Lederman, Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization 29(2), 385-413, April 2013.
“When Educators are the Learners: Private Contracting by Public Schools”, joint with Nora E. Gordon, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 12(1), January 2012.
“Does Vertical Integration Affect Firm Performance? Evidence from the Airline Industry”, joint with Mara Lederman, RAND Journal of Economics 41(4), Winter 2010, pp. 765-790.
“Adaptation and Vertical Integration in the Airline Industry”, joint with Mara Lederman, American Economic Review 99 (5), December 2009, 1831-1849.
“The Effect of Air Traffic Delays on Airline Prices”, International Journal of Industrial Organization 26 (5), September 2008, pp. 1218-1232.
“The Effect of Service Quality and Expectations on Customer Complaints”, Journal of Industrial Economics 56 (1), March 2008, pp. 190-213.
“The Role of Regional Airlines in the U.S. Airline Industry”, joint with Mara Lederman, in: Darin Lee (ed.), Advances in Airline Economics, Vol. II, Elsevier, 2007.
“Product market competition, corporate governance and firm performance: an empirical analysis for Germany”, joint with Jens Köke and Joachim K. Winter, Research in Economics 56 (3), September 2002, 299-322.
Teaching
Economic Analysis for Business Decisions (MBA Core, MIT Sloan, 2020)
Econometrics (Tufts, 2017 – present)
Economics of Management and Strategy (Tufts, 2017 – present)
Economics for Managers (MBA Core, CWRU), 2013 - 2017
Economics of Network Industries (Undergraduate Elective, UCSD), 2006-11
Industrial Organization (Ph.D. Elective, UCSD), 2004-12
Intermediate Microeconomics (Undergraduate Core, UCSD), 2004-12
Introductory Microeconomics (Undergraduate Core, CWRU and MIT), 2002 and 2014 - 2017